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Kellett Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE | $8,000 |
| INTERFACE MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY | $5,300 |
| MERCURY ONE INC | $5,300 |
| GHS OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY KELLETT SCHOLARSHIP | $4,800 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ATLANTA | $4,000 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $3,600 |
| FAITH MEMORIAL CHAPEL | $3,500 |
| TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,500 |
| CARING WORKS | $3,300 |
| ATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION | $3,300 |
| COMPASS HARBOR | $3,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $2,800 |
| SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES | $2,700 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +110%
- CSCancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +26%
- MVMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CVColes Victory Lapone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -8%
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATREone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -13%
- TMTRIUNE MERCY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
The organization's mission is to increase the economic self-sufficiency of people experiencing poverty in the Midlands through crisis assistance and sustainability programs. The Ministry provides guidance, counseling, referrals, and direct…
We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Kijabe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Cancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hands on Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CaringWorks Inc ↗
- Who funds 721 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CROWDED TABLE ↗
- Who funds Coles Victory Lap ↗
- Who funds DABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Scsymmes Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Central Carolina Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kellett Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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